Information Quotes - page 90

Hayek's work in philosophy can be considered from another perspective than its methodology. When Hayek wrote that his philosophical studies should precede his political studies, he meant that in order to explain the sort of political system he favored, it was necessary to have greater understanding of the transmission and communication of information and knowledge. This is why he wished to travel to Italy and Greece. He thought that he might understand nonverbal knowledge better in doing so and might better understand the role of institutions in transmitting knowledge and information. (Alan O. Ebenstein)
The amount of scientific information we've discovered in the last twenty years is more than all the discoveries up to that point, from the beginning of language. View quote
Daniel Levitin
In order to understand one person speaking to us, we need to process 60 bits of information per second. View quote
Daniel Levitin
We need to take a step back, and realize that not everything we encounter is true. You don't want to be gullibly accepting everything as true, but you don't want to be cynically rejecting everything as false. You want to take your time to evaluate the information. View quote
Daniel Levitin
Getting new information through Web-surfing almost always feels more rewarding than having to generate new information in the work that is in front of us. It therefore takes increasing amounts of self-discipline to stay on task. View quote
Daniel Levitin
Information overload refers to the notion that we're trying to take in more than the brain can handle. View quote
Daniel Levitin
These technologies can make life easier, can let us touch people we might not otherwise. You may have a child with a birth defect and be able to get in touch with other parents and support groups, get medical information, the latest experimental drugs. These things can profoundly influence life. I'm not downplaying that. View quote
Steve Jobs
This revolution, the information revoultion, is a revolution of free energy as well, but of another kind: free intellectual energy. It's very crude today, yet our Macintosh computer takes less power than a 100-watt bulb to run it and it can save you hours a day. What will it be able to do ten or 20 years from now, or 50 years from now? View quote
Steve Jobs
Nothing happens quite by chance. It's a question of accretion of information and experience ... it's just chance that I happened to be here at this particular time when there was available and at my disposal the great experience of all the investigators who plodded along for a number of years. View quote
Jonas Salk
When a pianist sits down and does a virtuoso performance he is in a technical sense transmitting more information to a machine than any other human activity involving machinery allows. View quote
Robert Moog
Refuse to allow yourself to become a vegetable that simply absorbs information, pre-packaged, pre-ideologized, because no message.. is anything but an ideological package that has gone through a kind of processing. (Edward Said)
In any event, the proper question isn't what a journalist thinks is relevant but what his or her audience thinks is relevant. Denying people information they would find useful because you think they shouldn't find it useful is censorship, not journalism. View quote
Michael Kinsley
Kala is about my mum and her struggle–how do you work, feed your children, nurture them and give them the power of information? View quote
M.I.A.
Here's the thing: If you're monitoring every single thing that goes on in a given culture, if you have all the information that is there to be had, then that is the equivalent of having none of it. How are you going to process that amount of information? View quote
Alan Moore
Further to this, there is a point sometime around 2015 where human information is doubling every thousandth of a second. View quote
Alan Moore
There is a channel that I have called the god Mercury, some sort of information source I have named. View quote
Alan Moore
To me, energy is information – I think you can make that bold a statement. The only lines of energy that link up disparate sites in London are lines of information, that have been drawn by an informed mind. The energy that we put forth is information we have taken in. View quote
Alan Moore
I understand that the word ‘occult' means hidden, but surely that is not meant to be the final state of all this information, hidden forever. I don't see why there is any need to further obscure things that are actually lucid and bright. View quote
Alan Moore
The schizophrenic has had their window kicked in, the magician has got a body of law – probably most of it bollocks, it doesn't matter. The magician's got a system into which the alien information that will be pouring into him or her will be fitted. View quote
Alan Moore
Politics sometimes sells itself as having an ethical dimension, as if there was good politics and bad politics. As far as I understand it, the word actually has the same root as the word polite. It is the art of conveying information in a politic way, in a way that will be discrete and diplomatic and will offend the least people. View quote
Alan Moore
I was asked to collect information where the symbols of our Banner of Peace could be found. It turned out that the symbol of the Holy Trinity has been scattered all over the world. This has been explained in various ways. (Nicholas Roerich)
A good writer should be able to write comedic work that made you laugh, and scary stuff that made you scared, and fantasy or science fiction that imbued you with a sense of wonder, and mainstream journalism that gave you clear and concise information in a way that you wanted it. View quote
Neil Gaiman
Information and knowledge: two currencies that have never gone out of style. View quote
Neil Gaiman
Eyes as black and as shiny as chips of obsidian stared back into his. They were eyes like black holes, letting nothing out, not even information. View quote
Neil Gaiman
The hope of Internet anarchists was that repressive governments would have only two options: accept the Internet with its limitless possibilities of spreading information, or restrict Internet access to the ruling elite and turn your back on the 21st century, as North Korea has done. View quote
Peter Singer